The Mt. Sterling Advocate (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-Current

• 1891–1922
• Newspaper

Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.

1,781 issues from 1891 to 1922, published in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.

The Mount Sterling Advocate has served the seat of Montgomery County and the surrounding area since 1890. Founded by businessmen John H. Mason and Dr. C.W. Harris, the weekly was an immediate success despite many other well-established county papers. By its second year, the Advocate was printing an impressive eight pages of copy. By 1920, it was published as a 12-page semi-weekly. The paper continued to grow and eventually expanded to its current 24 pages.

Montgomery County was a “gateway” county, connecting the Eastern Mountain and Bluegrass regions of Kentucky. A single road, later designated as U.S. 460, led out of the mountains into downtown Mount Sterling. The first city of substantial size in the flatlands along the thoroughfare, Mount Sterling was a natural hub for commerce and social gatherings. Not surprisingly, much of the Advocate’s content focused on the area’s heavy agricultural trade. One of the largest cash crops in both regions was Burley tobacco. The Burley Tobacco Society, an organization for tobacco farmers in Kentucky, featured prominently in the paper, along with other aspects of the tobacco market. The horse industry, of particular import to the Bluegrass Region, merited its own column–“Horse and Track,” which was dedicated to racing news and the sale of horses.

In keeping with the Commonwealth’s reputation for lively political rivalries, politics was a key aspect of the Advocate’s coverage. As a Democratic paper, the Advocate kept the county’s…

Genres

News

Published in

Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States

Language

English

Collection

Chronicling America

Licence or status

None stated by the archive

Rights

The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.

Credit

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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